Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Had the people, in fact, become indifferent? Signs pointed to a contrary conclusion. One sign was the active and widespread confidence in and support of Secretary George Marshall. Another was the Gallup poll which showed only 5% of the opinion that the U.S. went too far in opposing Russian aims...
Marshall applied this warning to the U.S. public today, noting "a natural tendency to relax and to return to business as usual, politics as usual, pleasure as usual. Many of our people have become indifferent to what I might term the long-term dangers to the nation's security...
Athenian democracy had been exhausted in the struggle with the hard and sterile tyranny of Sparta. One lesson rose from the ruin of Athens: democracies need leaders who, trusting the people, have the courage to tell them what they must sacrifice to remain free. Secretary Marshall has never made a...
Last week Grand-Guignol began its 50th season with four new short plays which had been toned down for the benefit of queasy critics. It was not like the old days; there were only three gruesome murders, and there was no torture more horrendous than a barehanded strangulation. Nobody in...
¶ Stonewall Jackson, an "indifferent and slouchy looking man" whom some thought "deranged," suddenly halts while on midday reconnaissance, dismounts, unbuckles his sword, goes to sleep with his head on the root of a tree.